New media, old media
Bruce Allen, over at Boston Sports Media Watch, is talking about how the “professional” media is still taking potshots at Internet-based media.
[Boston Herald sports writer] Tony Massarotti and many of the other traditional media types feel threatened and out of their comfort zone. They’re used to controlling the information that gets to the fans. Now, if players are directly communicating with the fans, the media loses that bit of control, and their bosses are questioning them as to why they’re not getting that information. Their ecosystem is being challenged and their instinct is to fight. First, they mock. They must try to discredit anything from the Internet. Refer to the people who use it as “geeks” and portray them as living in their parents basements. Then as the medium gets more established, they move onto attacks.
